A new milestone in European artificial intelligence development is EuroLLM-9B, which debuted on December 2, 2024. The 9 billion parameter, open-source language model supports 35 languages, including all 24 official languages of the European Union. The project aims to promote the preservation of European linguistic diversity in the digital space.
Twenty leading European research institutes, companies, and EuroHPC centres have joined forces to launch the OpenEuroLLM project, which is developing open-source language models with a budget of €52 million to strengthen European digital sovereignty. The initiative, launched on February 1, 2025, is coordinated by Jan Hajič (Charles University, Czech Republic)
Levente, Hungary's latest supercomputer, is being built at the Wigner Research Centre for Physics in Csillebérc as part of the EuroHPC JU program. The project holds strategic importance for domestic research and development and industrial technological progress, particularly since the new machine will be four times more powerful
The Forschungszentrum Jülich research centre hosts Europe's first exascale computer, JUPITER, which can execute one quintillion (10^18) computational operations per second, thereby revolutionising scientific research and complex problem-solving. Exascale computing represents a significant advancement in supercomputer development, as these systems are a thousand times faster than petascale
